Friday, October 9, 2009

Blogger's Quilt Festival

I have had a hard time choosing one of my favourite quilts but have decided to include Claire's Gelati Stars. This quilt was pieced by my customer Penny a few years ago for her daughter Claire. It is a gorgeous quilt with stars in soft colours set with hexagons in a cream fabric. I particularly like how the pink stars draw your eye in. Penny machine pieced her quilt with a class by Kathryn George at Calico & Chintz. Please contact Kathryn directly if you are interested in this pattern at calicoandchintz@bigpond.com.

Penny gave me permission to quilt as desired - I quilted all the stars with line-dancing swirls and quilted feathers in each of the setting hexagons.

Here is a close-up of one of my favourite pink stars:-

Some of the quilting in this quilt is quite dense which, as a machine quilter, I reall love although it is not to everyone's taste. I discovered this when this quilt was exhibited in the Australian Machine Quilter's Exhibition in 2007 when I overheard someone say "and this quilt has been quilted to death". It did teach me to be careful about what you say at an exhibition as the person who made the quilt may not be too far away.

I hope you have enjoyed Claire's Gelati Stars - I certainly enjoyed quilting it! I hope you enjoy the Blogger's Quilt Festival.

You're so right about watching what you say at quilt shows! I was at one last weekend and talking about a quilt (thankfully I was saying something nice) and the maker overheard and came over to thank me for the kind commments.

Your quilt is beautiful and I don't think it's quilted to death at all!

This is a beautiful quilt. Thanks to Park City Girl, we are finding inspiration from many others! Love your blog too! This one looks like it is quilted with a long arm, I WANT ONE!!! Thanks for sharing, Stephanie

Oh, this is just beautiful.I HAVE seen quilts that I felt were over-quilted, with tiny stippling that did nothing but stiffen the quilt, but this is certainly not one that I would think that about. Your quilting is shape specific, and definitely adds an extra dimension of beauty to the finished object.Congratulations on a most beautiful job.......you AND the lady who pieced this quilt.

P.S. I used to love to hang around my quilt at a big show, hoping to overhear praise.......that wasn't always the case, and it taught me a good lesson there too !

I so admire your machine quilting. I've been a long time "stippler" which is also freehand but I haven't yet ventured beyond that.....yet! Thanks for sharing this one.....absolutely stunning!! I love the soft pallet of colors and the dense quilting design. Great job!

Dang, I missed the deadline - I ran across the bloggers quilt festival last spring, but didn't know it was going on this fall as well! Well, at least I can still look at all the fun quilts everyone else posted. Yours is beautiful!